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Taxonomy vs Subreplacement - What's the difference?

taxonomy | subreplacement |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective subreplacement is

(demography|of a birth rate) below the level needed to maintain the current population.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    subreplacement

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (demography, of a birth rate) Below the level needed to maintain the current population.
  • * 2011 , James W. White, Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo , University of Virginia Press (2011), ISBN 9780813930701, page 219:
    • The other is the fact that the population of Japan has begun to shrink, the result of years of subreplacement birth rates.
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